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What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.

The financial crisis has put to rest the myths
that our economic institutions are sound and markets work best
when deregulated. Our economic institutions have failed, not
only financially, but also socially and environmentally. This,
combined with the election of a new president with a mandate
for change, creates an opportune moment to rethink and
redesign.

Van Jones' leadership has been especially important in bridging the environmental and social justice worlds through his call for green collar jobs. This is one of the key promises of the Obama campaign, so in this interview, conducted on November 12, 2008, I asked him whether he now planned to join the Obama administration.

Recent research has shown that our brains are made to support caring, cooperation, and service. David Korten says there is evidence that we can learn to get along across the red-blue divide—after all, we want most of the same things. As a bonus, we'll be healthier and happier if we do.

Sen. Barack Obama's resounding victory is a generational victory. As one friend told me, it is 400 years in the making. In that sense, that explains the tears and the dancing in the streets across the nation and across the suddenly very small world we live in...

“I'm helping to create an economic system
that will respect and protect the earth—one which would
replace corporate globalization with a global network of local
living economies. Business is beautiful when it's a vehicle for
serving the common good.”

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come. Illustrated with a photo of solar units brought on foot to a Himalayan village. The Barefoot College of Tilonia, India is training locals on installation and repair of solar units.

Paul Goodman quote that appears in the inside
front cover of print magazine: “Suppose you had the
revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your
side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted.
How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start
living that way now!”

“Future generations, if there is a livable
world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are
making to a life-sustaining society. And they may well call
this the time of the Great Turning.” Joanna
Macy